I do remember with great pleasure, if not terribly clearly, a play by Richard Foreman with music by Stanley Silverman called Hotel For Criminals, which I saw in a sinisterly suitable mansion in the cultured wilds of western Massachusetts in the summer of 1974, and which could be described as based loosely on Fantomas.

— Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey Quotes

If something doesn’t creep into a drawing that you’re not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

— Edward Gorey

I don’t think anything might have been. What is, is.

— Edward Gorey

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion.

— Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

— Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

— Edward Gorey

All the things you can talk about in anyone’s work are the things that are least important.

— Edward Gorey

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is – but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

— Edward Gorey

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

— Edward Gorey

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

— Edward Gorey

When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected – and no one in sight.

— Edward Gorey

I do remember with great pleasure, if not terribly clearly, a play by Richard Foreman with music by Stanley Silverman called Hotel For Criminals, which I saw in a sinisterly suitable mansion in the cultured wilds of western Massachusetts in the summer of 1974, and which could be described as based loosely on Fantomas.

— Edward Gorey

I tend to think life is pastiche: I’m not sure what it’s a pastiche of – we haven’t found out yet.

— Edward Gorey

You never really choose anything. It’s all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.

— Edward Gorey

As someone once said, originality is not taking from somebody else. It’s when nobody can take it from you and repeat it.

— Edward Gorey

A situation comes up, and either you do this or that, or maybe a third alternative comes up. But you simply do not choose. You never really choose anything. It’s all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.

— Edward Gorey

More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won’t be hit in the head quite so frequently.

— Edward Gorey

Indoor cats don’t lose their wildness, which is one reason I am so fascinated by them. They seem to retain all their jungly qualities no matter what.

— Edward Gorey

We spend all our lives trying to avoid reality in one way or another. I’ve always had a rather strong sense of unreality. I feel other people exist in a way I don’t.

— Edward Gorey

I do like rocks. I had a terrible trauma this week: I didn’t know what had become of my favorite rock. And I thought, Oh my God, I can’t live. Fortunately, it was found.

— Edward Gorey

I look like a real person, but underneath I am not real at all. It’s just a fake persona. That’s why cats are so wonderful. They can’t talk. They have these mysterious lives that are only half-connected to you. We have no idea what goes on in their tiny minds.

— Edward Gorey
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